A co-worker sent me this one..... Maybe Roger shouldn't have
worried about valve-offset and just bought a JATO unit........
-Lance
>THE DARWIN AWARD
>
>Darwin Award nominee: You all know about the Darwin Awards--it's an
>annual honor given to the person who did the gene pool the biggest
>service by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupind way.
>Last year's winner was the fellow (note: others also have killed
>themselves this way, right Jake?) who was killed by a Coke machine, which
>toppled over on top of him as he was attempting to tip a free soda (i.e.:
>pop) out of it.
> The Arizona Highway Patrol came upon a pile of smoldering metal
>embedded into the side of a cliff rising above the road, at the apex of a
>curve. The wreckage resembled the sight of an airplane crash, but it was
>a car. The type of the car was unidentifiable at the scene.
> The boys at the lab finally figured out what it was, and what had
>happened. It seems that a guy had somehow got hold of a JATO unit, (Jet
>Assisted Take Off, actually a solid-fuel rocket). JATO units are used to
>give heavy military transport planes an extra push for taking off from
>short airfields. He had driven his Chevy Impala out into the desert, and
>found a long, straight stretch of road. Then he attached the JATO unit to
>his car, jumped in, got up some speed, and fired of the JATO!!!
> Best they could determine, he was doing somewhere between 250-300
>mph (350-420 km/h) when he came to that curve... (NOTE: Solid-fuel
>rockets don't have an "off" switch; once started, they burn at full
>thrust until all the fuel is gone.)
PS Don't try this at home.... or with your MG-TC or SPRIDGET!!!
Lance M. Kennelty
Systems Analyst
Office Systems Services
Computing and Information Services
University of Pittsburgh
419F Bellfield Hall
Pittsburgh PA 15261
EMAIL: LMK2+@PITT.EDU
PHONE: (412) 624-2977
"Nothing funny about this."
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